-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com what-if in boston's history.t could the marathon bombing have been prevented? if only police had connected the dots in a mysterious triple he will murder a year-and-a-half earlier. we'll talk with a reporter who pieced together very disturbing details. also this hour, police called in to deal with a dispute between mother and daughter, and somehow the father ends up dead. and yes, the camera was rolling when police piled on. and he stood firmly behind

amanda knox through six years of murder trials, declaring their innocence, all the way. but is her ex-boyfriend's story starting to change? hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it is wednesday, february 26th. and welcome to "legal view." we're going to begin with a tragic story that started as a spat between a mother and her teenage daughter. they're at the movie theater, it is supposed to be a fun outing. yet in this case in moore, oklahoma, their argument ended with a deadly encounter with the police. not for the two women. for their father. mia rodriguez took video of the final minutes of the takedown on her cell phone. >> luis, please! luis, please! >> calm down, sir. >> this is a parent thing.

and look how you're treating him. luis, are you okay? luis! luis, are you okay? >> he's fine. >> why you come to all of this? please, tell me. this -- >> medical is on the way, ma'am. >> this person, this -- our youngest daughter, has been treating us like crap. >> can you do me a favor real quick? >> yes. >> we're going to get everything in control. what we need to do is get an i.d. from you and i.d. from you, okay? i understand that there's a domestic here. someone hit someone. >> yes. i hit my daughter. >> you hit your daughter. >> yes. >> okay. a crime was committed. domestic abuse. we came to investigate it. he refused to give his i.d. and got combative and that's why he got put in this position, okay?

>> but why -- is he bleeding? >> i'm bleeding. that's me. but i've got medical here, they're going to take him out and make sure he's okay. right now i need your i.d. and her i.d., okay? >> yes. yes, i need to record this also. i'm recording. >> i understand that. what i need is your -- i need your i.d., okay? just stay with me. >> this is incredible. you will see. that man doesn't look for trouble. at all! >> right now, i need your i.d. >> at all. yes. i will give you my i.d. you all -- five men. five men! >> we're going to let medical -- >> hitting that guy. just because our daughter -- >> ma'am -- >> made that decision. >> you're getting yourself in trouble, okay? we need your i.d. >> is he okay? he doesn't move! >> they're going to take care of him. >> he doesn't move! you'll kill him! you kill him! >> he's getting medical

attention right now. >> you're killing my husband! >> we're going to get him to medical, okay? >> i need to -- please, somebody tell me that he's alive! >> that is very difficult to watch, especially knowing now those last words, please tell me he's alive. he's dead. he did not survive that police takedown. and our martin savidge joins me live from the cnn center in atlanta. it is so difficult to watch that. what are the police saying about the questions now that are undoubtedly going to only get bigger about how this man died? >> yeah, hello, ashleigh. it's gut-wrenching, without a doubt. the authorities right now are taking a very -- let's look back and just see what is going on here in their investigation. because right now they have suspended or at least put on leave the three officers -- keep in mind here, there were three police officers and two members that were part of actually the game warden's office.

and they all happened to be at that theatre on another call. and then someone came into the movie theatre lobby and said, hey, there is a domestic dispute going on outside, you ought to see. the police went out there and it appears they immediately moved in then on luis rodriguez, the husband, the man on the ground. it is the woman, the wife of 22 years, that's filming, and their daughter there. as you heard the woman begin to explain, the fight was actually between the mother and daughter. but the police focused on the man. the authorities say he was combative, that he resisted their attempts to arrest him or at least take him into custody and that he would not provide i.d. but then you see five men get on top of him, apparently in an effort to restrain him. now, the police chief of the moore police department in oklahoma says he's looked at this. he thinks it's, quote, unquote, reasonable. we should point out that what you're looking at is the video that picks up halfway through the altercation. we don't see how it began. and we don't really know how luis died. we're waiting on the autopsy that's going to be key, as is

surveillance video, that could be outside the movie theater, ashleigh. >> so many questions still to have answered. martin savidge reporting live. thank you for that. i also want to show you something else, another disturbing cell phone video of an off-duty police officer shooting and killing a firefighter. the firefighter had just been married a few hours earlier. you can see the kansas city police officer, don hubbard, struggling with the firefighter. >> oh! >> anthony bruno is the firefighter and officer hubbard was responding to a report of a fight between bruno, his new bride and a cab driver. but bruno, the firefighter, ran away. and the officer struggled to arrest him. you can see that bruno, the firefighter, had been pounding the officer repeatedly on the concrete. hubbard, the officer, says he started to lose consciousness. and here's where it's key. he said he was afraid for his life. and that he fired two shots.

those shots killed bruno, the firefighter. the officer has been cleared at this point of any wrongdoing. and another controversial confrontation in baltimore county, maryland, as police arrested two people early sunday morning. a man was videotaping the arrests, and that's when an officer confronted him, saying that he had no rights. no rights to be doing that. this incident is also still under investigation. for the legal view on all of this, i want to bring in cnn legal analyst and defense attorney, mark o'mara and heather hanson. mark, i just want to start off by asking, what exactly are people's rights? when they pull out a camera and they start shooting something that's happening in front of them involving the police? >> well, there are state statutes that address that. in florida, for example, you can't take an audio of somebody without their knowledge and consent. videotape is not covered in florida, and i think throughout

the states, for the most part, you're allowed to take a video of something that's happening in the public. so i did not believe the police officer is correct in saying they can't take a video of an event that's happening. cops may not like it, but i think it's a lawful activity and they should be allowed to continue. >> so if -- mark, if the police approach someone who is shooting a video and they say stop, i'm going to arrest you, if you don't stop, and you don't stop videotaping, are you now resisting arrest? or are you causing an additional legal complication for yourself? >> well, you're probably causing a complication for yourself, because when you're really guilty of is contempt of cop. it's not a crime, but very often when you don't do what a cop says, you find yourself in trouble. don't forget, under the statute, that cop has to be performing a legal duty. if they come up to you and say, "give me a dollar," obviously not a legal duty. if they come up and say "stop videotaping" and that's not a legal duty, then they can't arrest you for resisting arrest, because you're not resisting a -- the enforcement of a legal

duty. so it's an unknown area. but i think cops are going to have to get used to the fact that everybody has a video camera and most of what they do is now going to be videotaped. they just need to get used to that. >> so if and when perhaps they get used to it, heather hanson, how valuable is the videotape? because you heard in the case that martin savage was reporting on, the videotape starts partially in. it doesn't capture all of the before. and sometimes context can mean everything. as they say, devil is in the details. >> absolutely, ashleigh. and that's why surveillance in that case is going to be so important. the majority of the time, the people who feel as though they're being treated poorly by the cops put out the video as that starts. they're not taping the confrontation that happened before. you heard the cop say he had his own blood on him. if there was a confrontation that caused that police officer to be bleeding, it certainly would be helpful to have that video. so you need to put it in context, for sure. >> all right. mark o'mara and heather hansen, stay with me, if you would,

both, please. a couple other things. in arizona today, just about everybody is watching the governor and wondering what she is going to do. because if governor jan brewer does nothing, a bill there is going to become law in a few days, and that bill let's companies, even people, refuse to do business with gays and lesbians if they cite religious reasons. she could decide to veto that bill and it's dead in the water. but at this point, it is 100% up to the woman on your screen. and by the way, if you're wondering where she stands right now, she told cnn this week, quote, i'm going to go home and when i receive the bill, i'm going to read it, and i'm going to be briefed on it. and i will make my decision in the near future. also in the news, the number of undercover air marshals is lower now than in years past. and you can blame budget cuts. the exact number of armed, plain-clothes officers who work commercial flights is a secret. but we have seen an internal

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three men who were slashed to death in a drug den, a leading suspect who was shot to death by the fbi, and in between that, the boston marathon

bombings. none of those cases is new. the triple murder happened two-and-a-half years ago, but despite an undeniable connection in the person of this man, tamer long stsarnaev, whether they would have happened, questions that range from very trouble to go down right shocking. my guest has uncovered reams of new and surprising information in a piece that she reported for "boston" magazine. i want the to start with the first question, and that is this. this is an exhaustive piece that i have read by you. it's in this issue of the magazine. when you went through the triple murders that happened in 2011, the connection with tamer lynn tsarnaev, the connection to the suspect in florida, and his friend's girlfriend, et cetera,

did you find out something that the rest of us hadn't pieced together that perhaps the boston bombings may never have occurred? >> well, you put together that this is really three stories all rolled up into one, an unsolved triple murder, boston marathon bombing and a man shot to death in his own apartment in florida. and the only official statement that we have from authorities right now comes out of court documents related to dzhokhar tsarnaev which officially states that ibrahim implicated tamer lynn tsarnaev. >> we haven't had a year since the bombings to put it together. the death in the apartment in florida -- >> yes. >> at the hands of the fbi. >> yes. there were two massachusetts state troopers present, as well. >> it was immediately after the

potential signing of a confession to the triple murders? is this what this is about? >> those are the leaked reports. we haven't had any official accounts. i actually just got a press release just this afternoon saying that the florida state prosecutor who is conducting an independent investigation into this fbi shooting, he will have his own independent report out by the end of march. and that's the first official date we have had that there will be any official report as to what happened in that room. >> in that apartment. >> in that apartment. >> and you're saying this is the florida investigation. >> this is the florida -- >> this is not the fbi. >> this is not the fbi. >> they said that they would sew owe because there's all sorts of different versions of what happened. he's sitting at a table, they say he rushed the officers with either a knife and then in another account a pipe. he has a shotgun. or rather a gunshot to the head, top of the head. >> yeah, and i've actually been in this room. and to this -- it's a small condo with -- eastbound ibra m

ibrahim's girlfriend who was deported for all accounts, speaking to me. >> first of all, it's interesting you break this news right now, that the authorities in florida are going to release the information, that perhaps the fbi has not had the control over them if there is such a thing, to stop them from doing so, as they continue the investigation into who may have played a wider role in the bombing. do they perhaps then not see that there is a wider role that others may not have had anything to do with the bombings at the marathon? >> like i told you before, all we have is this one official statement, the fbi's contention, that ibrahim tote ashe have implicated tsarnaev into that grisly murder. so you have to -- there is a lot of questions here. my investigation starts with wallfem and a lot of leads that officials didn't go through there and the fbi still reaching

out to ibrahim's friends, asking him very, very basic questions about the boston -- >> well, while that may have been, you know, at least some respite for these victims' families in walltham who have been waiting for some solution -- >> i think that's where you're wrong. i mean, the victims' families are really, really hurting here. >> let me just ask one question. there is one spotty stopped and my mouth dropped open. the girlfriend is perhaps the only person who can give us any insight, what his reaction was when he heard about the bombings. i.e., did she suspect he may when he heard about the bombings and the death of tamer lynn? that maybe something was afoot? >> all she says she told me, she was in the condo with him and he heard about the boston marathon bombings, assumingly after tsarnaev died, and he was very,

very sad. >> maybe sad for the death of his friend or sad for the reality of it all? >> it's hard to say. it's hard to say. we just know that they were good friends. and there's a lot of questions here. >> this is as good friends, it's amazing he wasn't investigated back in 2011. it's a great piece. you have done a lot of work. i highly recommend people take a look. there is a lot -- >> thank you. >> that you have uncovered and written about. hopefully we'll get some answers. when was the date that the florida investigators are going to release the report? >> they said by the end of march 2014. this is the first time we have ever heard a solid month date of any sort of report coming out. >> you'll have to come back and tell us if it sheds anymore light on anything else. these questions that you found. it's just remarkable. just remarkable. thank you, the. susan, good to meet you. >> good to be here. unity may be crumbling between amanda knox and her ex-boyfriend, as the two of them together are appealing their convictions before italy's supreme court in that murder heard round the world. we've got a live report coming involving some odd behavior and

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this is a young woman who just can't seem to get out of the press. amanda knox. we're talking about her again today, because there is yet another development in this case that won't go away. convicted of murder, then acquitted, then convicted again of killing her roommate in italy. all of this, if you can believe it, six and a half years ago. and here's the update today. her boy friend at the time, rafael, remember the guy whose version of what happened that night matched up with amanda

knox's version to the t and the dotted i? he swore up and down she was innocent. but maybe not so much anymore. it's really tough to put this one together. our deb feyerick is watching this new development on what he is saying about her, what he is saying about the incidents. everything that happened afterwards. and all of a sudden, there's this divergence of things. i'm not sure what to make of it, because much of it is behavioral, not so much factual. >> that's exactly right. he has defended amanda knox. their stories have not diverged. but what is happening now is, there are some questions being raised. he's saying i don't know why she behaved so strangely the morning that meredith concekercher was dead. for example, they spent the night together, she went to her apartment to shower, when she returned, she seemed agitated, she said the apartment had been broken into -- >> going back to the apartment, the shower is the murder scene. >> that's exactly right. and meredith concerner was in her bedroom, the morning she is

found. and rafael said to her, why did you leave? if the apartment looked like it had been broken into? why did you stay, why did you take the time to shower? >> you saw blood. >> and so now he's beginning to see the behavior is strange. always said the behavior was peculiar. >> did we know any of those details? did we know those specifics before? >> yes, absolutely. and prosecutors basically said, look, she knew what was going on. she is the one who switched around the evidence. she is the one who made it appear that things had been -- taken from that apartment. so yes, so that has come up before. but this is the first time that he is basically saying, you know what, sorry. and even amanda knox said, look, the reason italian prosecutors went after him, he's my alibi. >> it will be interesting to see how much this ends up as strategy because she's not there and he is. and he needs the tougher defense at this point. she may not have to fight an extradition order. >> that's exactly right. and even his lawyer has said, look, we have to separate the

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think about the man dna, the woman dna, they come together and make the baby. a lot of people don't realize, there is a lot of other dna that also comes from the mom, known as the mito done degree al dna. and that's what we're focused on here. women who have a disease of those mito con degreea may have a hard time having a baby or transmit a problem on to the baby that could be quite problematic for the baby. so what they do in this particular situation is they say, with that dna in particular, they scoop out the mom's dna and put in another woman's dna into that. so now you have man dna, woman dna and another woman mito chondrial dna. it's a brave new world. it's been done in animal studies. they have done five monkeys, for example, where they had good results of actually being able to show that the technique worked. how well that will translate to humans, that's what this whole discussion is about. >> and isn't it all sort of about not so much the now, but

the later? things may be very successful right now and the petri dish might look perfect. but ten years down the road, we don't know. >> you're doing something that is going to change every cell in the baby's body and it's going to be something that it be inherited down for generations to come. so your point is a very good one. a lot of people are saying this is kind of like legos, taking various lego pieces and putting them together and seeing what comes out. this is a very specific type of dna that's actually being replaced. the dna that's defective in these particular moms. so in some ways, you could think about this as treating a disease, sort of before that disease has a chance to form. that's how the researchers are certainly pitching it. as far as the impact on humans, we just don't know yet. one of the researchers says, look, human cells, they may just not take to this technique very well. we haven't tried this yet. but in animal studies, it has shown a lot of promise and that's why they want to take this next step. >> it's fascinating and frightening all at the same time. honestly, when i say franken baby, it may sound funny --

>> remember we talk about organ transplantation and people had the same reaction. i'm not advocating one way or the other. but the type of science and people talking about genetic manipulation has been going on for some time. this may be one of the first things the fda looks at seriously as a possible avenue here. >> we talked about the same thing with cloning, et cetera, as well. every time i talk about mitochondrial dna, it's a crime scene. sanjay, thank you. mark o'mara joins me live to talk about the legal implications of this, of which there have to be a myriad. all i can think, who gets custody. that sounds crazy but maybe not so crazy. there has got to be a lot to this, medically, legally, ethically. >> so many concerns that have to be addressed. this is the beginning of true genetic engineering. it's great we start with fixing a disease. when do we stop saying i want a 6'2 1/2", blue-eyed, blonde hair

athlete. looking at the true legal, we have to see whether the mom has legal rights to the child. when she wants to have an interest, that baby is part mine, we now have to have a whole new area of law to address literally a third-party benefit factor into a baby. >> so that's just the custodial part. what about the issues of something going terribly wrong that we didn't heretofore have any idea could possibly happen. at this point, who is liable? who has to deal with the medical costs that might be incurred, 10, 15 or god forbid, generations down the road? and i mean, you can't sign waivers for this kind of stuff. >> no. what happened is when the birth mom doesn't like the fact their my mitochondrial mom -- maybe she didn't say i used to party

as a teenager. there are so many -- a quagmire we're causing by looking into this and the different responsibilities. that's the problem. when god said, you know, most religious agree that god made man in his or her own image. i don't know that god planned on us making it better. and we have to be real careful what doors we open up going down that path. >> i cannot wait to see how this ends up transpiring. thank you. mark, stick around. i've got other questions for you as we move down the road here. look at this, folks. i don't know if you get a subscription to the "new york times," but if you do, take a look at this, the "national inquirer" with a full page in the "new york times" apologizing to the friend of actor philip seymour hoffman because of what it printed about the man who found his body. you're going to find out what this is all about, and the very interesting twist, next. 00000000000 we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan.

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a close friend of actor philip seymour hoffman says the media got it all wrong. was hoffman self destructive? wrong. a junky in a death spiral? wrong. even what was going on in his personal life, wrong. david bar-katz was the actor's long-time friend. he was the man who found philip seymour hoffman dead on his bathroom floor. and today he was on cnn. and he said he had one of those enough is enough moments when the "national inquirer" printed a story suggesting that he and his friend phillip were romantically involved. >> my initial reaction was ludicrous, when i saw when my son first saw something and told me that it was like -- saying phil and i were lovers. phil would have gotten a kick out of that. ridiculous. >> heard about it from your son. >> yeah, he has been online in the morning. and then when it blew up and everyone is like this is now becoming the story and i was being chased by photographers

and it became a thing where i unfortunately had to deal with in the midst of dealing with more important things. >> david bar-katz dealt with it by suing "the "national enquirer"" big-time and it really worked. because the tabloid has not only apologized to him, they did it if grand fashion. take a look at this full page in today's "new york times" page a9. hard to read the text, but let me tell you, it's a big, yeah, we were really, really wrong and we're going oh to pay. interestingly enough, though, they're going to pay in a different kind of way. mark o'mara is here, one of oh our legal analysts, heather hansen, criminal defense attorney. mark, it's interesting that the way this is going to happen is the national enquirer is going to fund a fund that will pay a scholarship, the american play writing foundation, being created in phil's name and that's what bar-katz has decided to do, make sure this lives on and helps people who phil would have liked. but man, this is just three

weeks, a little over three weeks since phillip died. does this tell you about elackerity and how badly they messed up? >> i like the fact that it was done quickly and they're being held to task. i hope that's a huge fund, because if someone like the national enquirer decides to take that type of liberty, they should pay for it. they have made him -- look as bad as they made him look, they did it with no sourcing whatsoever. ashleigh, you have told me how many times -- we can't go to story on something without it being properly sourced because that's good journalism. >> yeah. >> the media is going to be involved in everything we think, do and say, and they have to be held responsible. and if the "national inquirer" wants to sell a few papers, they should get hit hard in the pocketbook and i like the way he did it. >> and just so people know, it was an imposter who claimed to be david bar-katz telling the "national inquirer" this crazy fable about being a gay lover of the now dead actor.

heather, that person who did that, there is a whole other story there. that could be an entirely -- separate massive liable case. what is that person facing? >> he's facing -- you would assume, facing a huge amount of litigation here, ashleigh, because first of all, he's not going to have the pocketbook that the "national inquirer" has, nor the ability to take out a full-page ad. he would face not only defamation, but also perhaps appropriation, which is taking on someone else's identity. and i don't know that this person is going to have a defense. in new york, the law for defamation is you can get punitives, which means punishment. so there could be damages, just to punish that person and serve as an example. >> so just so people know, the money from this settlement is going to what i said, the american playwrighting foundation, and it's going to award a whopping $45,000 annually to people who could benefit in the theater world, people who, again, like i said, philip seymour hoffman would have loved.

and this is what they say. this is to honor him, because he relentlessly sought out truth in his work and demand the same from collaborators. thank you both. appreciate it. >> thank you, ashleigh. this is like a scene from a movie. but the accusations are real. billions of dollars in off-shore accounts allegedly hidden with the help of a swiss bank. and now that bank is being investigated in senate committee hearings. wait until you hear how they supposedly smuggleded the cash. and if you think i'm talking about a movie that may be in the theaters, "wolf of wall street?" i kind of am. christine romans, coming up next. (vo) you are a business pro.

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alone. credit suisse. my colleague, christine romans, has some jaw-dropping details. >> reporter: the numbers are shocking. according to the senate investigation, up to $12 billion was being held by credit suisse, and about 95% of all that cash not reported to the irs. >> only 1% of credit suisse's u.s. customers with swiss accounts have been provided to the united states authorities. >> reporter: but perhaps more shocking, how the bank and its clients are accused of pulling it off. >> we find and admit there was behavior that we certainly think is egregious. >> reporter: remember this scene from "the wolf of wall street?" >> i don't work for you. >> technically you do. >> these clients are accused of strapping their cash in even more inventive places trying to get their money out of the u.s. and into the swiss bank. senator john mccain slammed the cloak and dagger practices, saying -- >> some of the tactics that bankers use to help their u.s.

clients evade paying taxes belong in a spy novel. >> reporter: among the alleged hiding techniques, a quarter million dollars stashed in pantyhose. the senate report details a clandestined meeting in a fancy hotel where bank statements were exchanged, hidden in a "sports illustrated" magazine. and investors pretended to be tourists, but instead were smuggling in the cash. here at the zurich airport, senate investigators say the bank even set up a branch inside so that its customers could pop in and out easily. and like something out of james bond, clients were transported in secret elevators, remotely controlled by the bank. >> it's past time to fully and clearly expose how offshore tax havens, banks, help american account holders evade paying their taxes. >> reporter: now the senate committee is trying to tack track the cash, asking the bank to hand over the names of those americans hiding their cash with them. >> department of justice needs

to use the tools in its arsenal to collect the taxes owed. >> i wasn't sure to to book on this story. leonardo dicaprio was my first choice and second two on your screen. >> james bond -- >> no kidding. christine romans and evan perez both with me live. christine, start with you. i love the details, the pantyhose, "sports illustrated," right out of the movie. when we were watching carl levin, they want names, details, they want to get to the bottom of this. but for these guys on the hot seat -- >> look, there were some rogue private bankers, and that division has been dismissed, that people lost their jobs and this bank -- this bank will abide by u.s. law. the issue here, though, and evan can talk more about this. the issue here, these bankers, swiss law and american law are at odds sometimes about bank secrecy in switzerland. and that seems to be part of the issue. >> worried about being indicted in switzerland?

>> some of these accounts were 30,000 and 7 $5,000. i was thinking some of these were huge, huge accounts. that. >> sounds small -- not to normal people, but these kinds of people, that's nothing. >> some of the scrutiny has brought in people out of the woodwork, who have been self-reporting that they had these accounts they weren't paying taxes on so they could make sure they don't get in trouble with the u.s. government. >> so evan, you know, the poor credit suisse folks, they're getting it on the chin today, front and center of the head line, but they are not the only bank. there are plenty of people who will come under the fire of the senate committee, right? >> yes. there are 14 banks under investigation by the justice department alone. and there's about 100 banks have have already come forward and they want some of the names of some of the clients. the purpose of this committee and their report is, they want to it try to collect billions of dollars in taxes that they believe are owed. and they also want to light a fire under the justice department, which they think is moving way too slow, hasn't been

aggressive enough to try to bring the banks on to the -- you know, on to the law. and also to get some of these bankers to justice. 34 -- i think 34 bankers that have been indicted. they are not facing justice in the united states, because, you know, there is no extradition possibility between switzerland and the united states. >> huh. well, i just hope that someone is able to unearth the yacht videos and the parties, because that will be fun. at least to watch as we try to really figure out what happened to all this money and whether we'll get this tax money repatriated. christine romans, evan perez, it thank you both. next up, the surprise request that a 28-year-old job candidate got from an employer and what it had to do with his high school days. [ tires screech ] [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify

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this week's human factor. dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young violinist who overcame a rare disease and helped others by raising awareness. ♪ >> reporter: allison lint began playing the violin at 16 years old. this week, she started to feel exhausted and then had difficulty breathing. >> i couldn't perform everyday tasks. i couldn't remember how to dial the phone. >> reporter: she was misdiagnosed with bronchitis and pneumonia and then rushed to the hospital coughing up blood from a lung hemorrhage. she spent two-and-a-half weeks in an induced coma. when she finally left the hospital, doctors still didn't

know what was wrong with her. >> they sent me to the cleveland clinic, where i was diagnosed with wegner's granular metosis. >> reporter: which causes inflammation of the blood vessels. allison never gave up on her music. she started violin for vass cue lightis and plans to perform to raise awareness. last october came an invitation to join the akron symphony. >> it feels neat knowing i overcame this and still able to play. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> general motors announced today it's expanding a recall of compact cars due to an ignition problem and raised the number of deaths resulting from that problem to 13. the recall affects 1.37 million vehicles built between '03 and '07. it includes chevy cobalt's

pontiac g5, saturn ions and chef hhr, pontiac solstice and saturn sky models. do you think your s.a.t. score only matters to get into college? how about getting a job? 28-year-old steven morris' recruiter told him, get ready to it discuss your s.a.t. score in the upcoming job interview. moore says he was shocked that a potential boss would be the least bit interested in the result from a test he took more than a did decade earlier. but it turns out, according to the "wall street journal," consulting firms and banks like goldman sachs are asking new college recruits for their s.a.t. scores. and other companies are requesting them even for senior and management level jobs. so get your kids around the kitchen table tonight and tell them. s.a.t. scores matter. a lot. thanks for watching, everybody. nice to have you with us today. stay tuned. my colleague, wolf blitzer and his program, aptly named "wolf"

his program, aptly named "wolf" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com right now, new mystery surrounding papers from bill clinic ton's presscy. what's behind the delay and what's in nose papers? also right now, the vladimir putin ups the ante, calling for surprise military exercises near the ukrainian border. what message is he trying to send? and right now, tying benefits for american military veterans to sanctions on iran. it's part of the latest maneuvering going on in congress and making some lawmakers, including bernie sanders, boiling mad. hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we begin with a political paper chase that could cause some problems for hillary clinton. more than 30,000 pages of confidential documents from the bill clinton presidency should have